June Stearns – River of Regret (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:22 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Nashville Legacy
The family relocated to Franklin, Indiana, when she was a small child. The Stearns were a musical family and she learned guitar and was singing locally in her early teens. In 1957, on completing her education, she became a member of the WLW Cincinnati’sMidwestern Hayride, where she remained for two years. In 1960, she became a member of Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Gang. She played with them on the Grand Ole Opry and toured with Acuff as well as making solo appearances on the Louisiana Hayride. She remained with Acuff’s show until July 1965, when she was involved in the car crash that caused serious injuries to Acuff and several of his band members. She luckily escaped with a broken ankle but the incident unnerved her and she made no further tours with Acuff. She first recorded for Starday in 1963 but joined Columbia Records in 1967. In December 1967, she and Lefty Frizzell recorded ‘Have You Ever Been Untrue’ and ‘If You’ve Got The Money (I’ve Got the Time)’, which Columbia released as a single under the pseudonyms of Agnes And Orville. The following year, she enjoyed three Billboard country chart hits ‘Empty House’, ‘Where He Stops Nobody Knows’ and the biggest, a number 21, ‘Jackson Ain’t A Very Big Town’, a duet with Johnny Duncan. They recorded an album together and had further chart success, in 1969, with ‘Back To Back (We’re Strangers)’. She also had three further solo hits that year, the highest placement being a number 53 for ‘Walking The Midnight Road’. She moved to Decca Records, where she gained three Top 60 hits, in 1970/1, the last being ‘Your Kind Of Lovin’’, after which her name has been absent from the charts.
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Johnny Duncan, June Stearns – Back to Back (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:58 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Country
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Not to be confused with the American expatriate and British skiffle star of the same name, Johnny Duncan was a country-pop singer best known for a string of hits with producer Billy Sherrill in the late ’70s. Born in the farm town of Dublin, TX, in 1938, Duncan learned guitar from his mother as a child and also had two future performers in his family in the person of cousins Dan and Jimmy Seals (of England Dan & John Ford Coley and Seals & Crofts, respectively). All four family members, plus Duncan’s fiddle-playing uncle, Ben Moroney, played together in a local dance band. Duncan took up singing in his late teens and moved to Clovis, NM, in 1959, where he recorded some pop-oriented demos under producer Norman Petty. Nothing came of them, and he spent several years working as a DJ. He moved to Nashville in 1964 and worked odd jobs before landing a guest spot on Ralph Emery’s television show in 1966. That led to a deal with Columbia Records, which released his debut single, “Hard Luck Joe,” in 1967. Duncan had a few minor chart entries over the next few years, including two duets with June Stearns, but nothing that could be considered a breakout hit.
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